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with less complex geometry to set up your scene and animation, and then
replace it with more detailed geometry before rendering.
■ When you replace an object in your scene, you replace its geometry,
including its modifiers, but not its transforms, space warps, hierarchy, or
materials.
■ To replace the object with all its characteristics, use
Merge on page 6854 .
■ If the object that you're replacing has instances in the scene, all of the
instances are replaced with the new object.
■ All objects in the scene with the same name as the incoming object are
replaced by that object. If you have more than one object in the scene
with the same name as the incoming object, all of those objects are
replaced.
See also:
■
Merging Effects on page 6385
■ Merge Animation on page 6859
Procedures
To replace items:
1 Choose File > Replace to display the Replace File dialog.
To see more than one file type at a time, choose the All Files file type.
2 Select a file from which to choose replacement items.
3 On the Replace dialog for that file, choose a group or a replacement item.
(See the following procedure.)
An alert asks if you want to replace the materials along with the objects.
■ If yes, the materials from the incoming objects replace the current
materials.
■ If no, only the geometry is replaced, while the material assigned to
the original object is retained.
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